The demolition of the fire razed James Monroe School in Edison is being delayed as asbestos is still being removed from the building. Mark R. Sullivan/staff photographer On Friday April 25,2014 Edison

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Suzanne Russell
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Demolition of the James Monroe Elementary School on Sharp Road may start next week aftera small amount of asbestos at the school is removed.

School officials had said that demolition of the school, destroyed by a March 22 fire, was scheduled to begin Friday, but only a team of workers from Guardian Contracting Inc. in Toms River was there, removing asbestos from an area in the back of the school near the Montview Road entrance.

Karl Cunningham of Guardian Contracting Inc. said a small amount of asbestos was discovered on the wood fascia of the school, built in 1963, and work to remove it was ...